Kim Bilida
Staff Software Engineer at Candid
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Bilida is a Staff Software Engineer based in Gatineau with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems and improving release practices across startups and scale-ups. Currently leading engineering efforts at Candid after several senior engineering and staff roles at Shopify, Kim has a strong track record in production engineering, release management, and test automation. Early career work in performance-focused .NET systems and integrations evolved into mentoring teams on testing best practices and shipping high-quality APIs. Known for increasing release frequency and stability at Trōv and for sharing production engineering learnings at Shopify, Kim blends hands-on coding with operational discipline. Comfortable with both legacy platform modernizations and cloud-era production challenges, Kim brings pragmatic leadership that reduces risk while accelerating delivery. Outside core engineering duties, Kim’s background in molecular genetics signals a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and systems thinking.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Molecular Genetics, Bachelor of Science Molecular Genetics at University of AlbertaComputer Systems Technology Computer Science, Computer Systems Technology Computer Science at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
English, French
Github Skills (68)
relationship9
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testing8
rails7
ruby6
windows-forms6
sidekiq6
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ruby-rails6
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powershell5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kim76/TakeHomeAssignment
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
kim76/icebreaker
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
An async game to get to know your friends better!
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 1 day
async-gamereacttypescriptasync
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